1797
Year 1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
[edit] Events of 1797
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[edit] July - December
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[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
- January 10 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (died 1848)
- January 31 - Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1828)
- February 15 -Henry Engelhard Steinway, German-American piano manufacturer (died 1871)
- March 22 - Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany (died 1888)
- March 27 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (died 1863)
- May 6 - Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (died 1882)
- May 18 - Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, (died 1854)
- July 20 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (died 1873)
- August 30 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (died 1851)
- October 3 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1870)
- November 14 - Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist (died 1875)
- November 29 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (died 1848)
- December 13 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (died 1856)
- December 17 - Joseph Henry, American scientist (died 1878)
- date unknown - Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese woodblock print or ukiyo-e (died 1861)
- See also Category: 1797 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 13 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (born 1715)
- February 11 - Antoine Dauvergne, French composer (born 1713)
- February 22 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (born 1720)
- March 2 - Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (born 1717)
- March 26 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (born 1726)
- March 31 - Olaudah Equiano Nigerian ex-slave and slavery abolitionist (born 1745)
- May 17 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (born 1719)
- May 25 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (born 1719)
- May 27 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary leader (executed) (born 1760)
- May 27 - Augustin Alexandre Darthé, French revolutionary leader (executed) (born 1769)
- July 9 - Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher (born 1723)
- July 11 - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (born 1740)
- August 3 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (born 1717)
- August 22 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (born 1724)
- September 10 - Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist author (born 1759)
- October 9 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (born 1720)
- November 14 - Ivan Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (born 1727)
- November 16 - King Frederick William II of Prussia (born 1744)
- November 18 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (born 1719)
- November 29 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (born 1723)
- December 11 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (born 1722)
- See also Category: 1797 deaths.
[edit] Fiction
The events of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night happen in this year.
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